Colonel DeWitt Clinton Baxter 72nd Regiment Pennsylvania Civil War Soldier CDV

Please use photos for grading purposes. Info as follows: Before the Antietam Campaign: Publisher of The Baxter Panoramic Business Directory. (Philadelphia) both before and after the war, he was listed variously as an engraver, designer, and artist. In April 1861 he was Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Pennsylvania Volunteers, but when that three-month enlistment expired, he organized and led the 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, Baxter's Fire Zouaves. In the Antietam Campaign: The 72nd met with severe and prolonged fighting and heavy losses as the Second Division of the corps advanced to the Dunker Church area and was hit in the flank and driven from the field.

In a very few minutes, the 72nd Pennsylvania suffered the third highest casualties of any Federal regiment that day - 38 killed, 163 wounded and 36 missing. The remainder of the War: He led the regiment at the Battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg and the Wilderness. He was wounded at Gettysburg during the Philadelphia Brigade's famed defense of the Angle during Pickett's Charge After the War: After the war, Baxter was occupied variously, as a naval officer at the Custom House (1869) and in the mid-seventies as a principal in the Keystone Portable Forge Company. He may have revived his Panoramic Directory business in the late 1870s.

Originally buried in Monument Cemetery in Philadelphia, he was reinterred in Lawnview. The item "Colonel DeWitt Clinton Baxter 72nd Regiment Pennsylvania Civil War Soldier CDV" is in sale since Saturday, November 26, 2016.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "funkeyjunque" and is located in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania.

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